here’s an encouraging news story about one iraq war vet helping other vets to transform their trauma into artwork. they take their old uniforms, turn them into paper, and then make art projects out of them to communicate about their experiences during the war, help themselves heal emotionally, and also speak out for peace. check it out.
also, the author of this news piece, dahr jamail, is a renowned journalist who has written many reports from the war in iraq, and is also visiting portland this weekend on the resisting empire speaking tour. he’ll be speaking at the first unitarian church on SW 12th & main at noon on saturday, along with staff sergeant camilo mejía, the board chair of iraq veterans against the war (IVAW). click the resisting empire link for more details and go check it out if you can, as it sounds like they’ll have some very interesting things to say. i’ll likely be there, to see what i can learn…
this season, the blazers welcome a few great new players, namely greg oden, rudy fernandez, jerryd bayless, among others, on top of keeping their strongmen from last year like brandon roy, lamarcus aldridge, steve blake, martell webster, travis outlaw, joel pryzbilla, and channing frye. i for one could not be more excited!
check out these clips from last night’s pre-season opener against the sacramento kings… (i especially love seeing rudy fernandez’s ball-handling!)
the blazers went on to win 110-81, a blowout here on their home court, and tonight they play game 2 of the pre-season against the golden state warriors which starts right about now on channel 8 if you live in portland. don’t miss it!
i’m thrilled that this new season is looking to be even brighter for the blazers, and i cannot wait to see how they will do this year!
of all the traveling and photo-capturing i’ve done this last week, this one somehow makes it into the upload folder first - a camera-phone image of a newspaper vending machine here in town. -h
